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Monday, February 21, 2011

How Darah Lace Made her First Sale

Hello Fellow Writers!

I've asked multi-published erotic romance author Darah Lace to tell us about her very first sale:

Darah Lace: Ah, my first sale... In the fall of 2005, a few of my buddies convinced me to take my really hot and steamy writing to erotic and to submit a short story to Play Girl. So, taking their advice, I popped out a short story titled Party Girl (PG). Now this was my first attempt at erotic but it was also my first attempt at first person. The former I fell in love with, but the latter, I admit, is not my cup of tea and I haven’t tried it since. Maybe someday.

Anyway, while tweaking PG for Play Girl, The Wild Rose Press opened its doors for submission. Wheels started turning and tweaking became revising. PG had to be a romance and it had to be longer. And the characters had to have some kind of history. Not necessarily with each other, though they ended up with one anyway. The story went from sexcapade to erotic romance, and I’m proud to say PG aka Yesterday’s Desire was the first Scarlet Rose published with TWRP in June of 2006. Yay! My first sale!

Darah has a new book with Ellora's Cave called Bucking Hard. Here's the blurb:

All her life, tomboy Bradi Kincaid has wanted two things—a career as a veterinarian in her hometown of Grayson, Texas…and Mason Montgomery. Problem is, he’s her best friend and, according to him, she’s “one of the guys”. Convinced he’ll never see her otherwise, Bradi comes up with a sure-fire plan to get over Mason—flirt a little, dance a lot and get laid.

What Mason imagines doing to Bradi is just all kinds of wrong. But the woman on the dance floor isn’t the girl he grew up with. She’s hot and sexy and turning him on. Him and every other man in the bar. She’s also had too much to drink and is unaware of the trouble she’s inviting. He does what any friend would—he steps in, then sets out to teach her a lesson.

But before the sun rises, Mason discovers Bradi has a thing or two to teach him.

Sounds great! I love the name Mason - in fact, the Hero in one of my WIPs is named Mason too! You can read an adults-only excerpt here.

My Wild Rose Press story was somewhat similar...a little Halloween story that grew and grew, was submitted to TWRP's Black Rose paranormal line and got gently nudged over to Scarlet, where the heat was turned up!

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About Me

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Shoshanna Evers has written dozens of sexy stories, including The Man Who Holds the Whip (part of the bestselling MAKE ME anthology), Overheated, The Enslaved Trilogy, and The Pulse Trilogy (from Simon & Schuster Pocket Star).
Her work has been featured in Best Bondage Erotica 2012 and Best Bondage Erotica 2013, the Penguin/Berkley Heat anthology Agony/Ecstasy, and numerous erotic BDSM novellas including Chastity Belt and Punishing the Art Thief from Ellora’s Cave Publishing.
The non-fiction anthology Shoshanna Evers edited and contributed to, How To Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors, is a #1 Bestseller in the Authorship, Erotica Writing Reference, and Romance Writing categories.
Shoshanna is also the cofounder of SelfPubBookCovers.com, the largest selection of one-of-a-kind, premade book covers in the world.
Shoshanna is a New York native who now lives with her family and two big dogs in Northern Idaho. She welcomes emails from readers and writers, and loves to interact on Twitter and Facebook.
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